Abstract: Heavier than air balloons with optical fiber decorative light arrays, which include a balloon attached to a hollow tube, or stick, which has one or more lengths of optical fibers inside or outside, with the balloon having an optional skirt, the optical fibers are adjacent to or integral with the skirt, which optical fibers each have a protective jacket or cladding to prevent light from escaping therefrom, with portions of the jacket or cladding removed at selected locations along their lengths to permit light patterns to be emitted therefrom, to form a decorative array, upon shining of a light into their ends.

Abstract: Optical fiber combinations, connected to a lighter than air balloon, which includes a tether having one or more lengths of optical fibers, and can include a string, which optical fibers have an outer protective jacket or cladding to prevent light from escaping therefrom, with portions of the jacket or cladding removed at selected locations along their lengths to permit light patterns to be emitted therefrom, upon shining of a light source into the ends of the fibers.

Abstract: A combination ribbon for bows or other decorative uses, which includes a central ribbon with a fiber optic cable therein, or at least one translucent cable jacket on one edge of the ribbon with a fiber optic cable therein, which cable has portions of its sheath removed to provide light patterns upon the shining of a light source therein.